diarrhoea

See also: diarrhœa

English

Noun

diarrhoea (usually uncountable, plural diarrhoeas)

1. British standard spelling of diarrhea.

Derived terms

• diarrhoeal

References

• “diarrhoea”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek διάρροια (diárrhoia).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /di.arˈroe̯.a/, [d̪iärˈroe̯ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /di.arˈre.a/, [d̪iärˈrɛːä]

Noun

diarrhoea f (genitive diarrhoeae); first declension

1. (Late Latin) diarrhoea

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	diarrhoea	diarrhoeae
Genitive	diarrhoeae	diarrhoeārum
Dative	diarrhoeae	diarrhoeīs
Accusative	diarrhoeam	diarrhoeās
Ablative	diarrhoeā	diarrhoeīs
Vocative	diarrhoea	diarrhoeae

Related terms

• diarrhoicus

Descendants

• → Catalan: diarrea
• → Galician: diarrea
• → Italian: diarrea
• → Middle French: diarrie
  • English: diarrhoea
  • French: diarrhée, diarrhœe (obsolete)
    • → Dutch: diarree
    • → Norwegian Bokmål: diaré
    • → Norwegian Nynorsk: diaré
    • → Romanian: diaree
    • → Swedish: diarré
• → Occitan: diarrèia
• → Piedmontese: diareia, diarena
• → Portuguese: diarreia
• → Romansch: diarrea
• → Spanish: diarrea

References

• “dĭarrhoea”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• dĭarrhœa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 518/3.